You know that above pretty much all else around here, we love sleepers. When said sleepers are home built using good old fashioned hot rod ingenuity they get our full attention and admiration, like this 1975 Olds Cutlass which is one of the most unlikely looking 10-second cars we have ever seen video of! BangShifter Darren Narine posted both of the below videos in our forum section of the site, so he gets full credit on this find.

The car is located in Canada and in the first video you’ll see it running at Napierville Dragway, a neat little strip that we have visited and the first place we ever heard a drag race announced in French! Located outside of Quebec, the track is a good facility and obviously some neat iron like this Olds and others show up to punish the pavement. The car is really quiet, barely does much of a burnout, and still has the stock style 15″ wheels on it. The ride height doesn’t suggest any hidden agenda, either. Hell, the car leaves like a big 1970s GM product with a small block in it, but when the car gets rolling and the twins start doing their thing, it picks up steam like a rocket powered train. The clocks stop on this lap at 10.81 seconds and the car was making a blazing 127-mph through the traps! Big torque and HP coming out of that 455!

The second video (although featuring some wonky camera work) is great, too as we see the owner of the Olds take us through the steps he does at home to modify the pistons he uses in the 455 for full floating wrist pins. The guy has built a neat little jig that allows him to use a Dremel tool with a cutting bit on it to work the piston pin hole to accept the new pin. He retains it with some simple snap rings. The whole process seems to take him just a couple minutes per piston and is a great example of home built, basement or garage hot rodding. We dig it, and obviously by watching the car, it works!

If you are ever in the Quebec area and decide that you are going to blow off the 1970s era Olds sled next to you on a deserted road, don’t. You’re humiliation will know no bounds when that big 455 gets wound up and the turbos start force feeding it like a mother. Long story short, it will be an experience that your buddies will never let you live down!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO WATCH BOTH VIDEOS – THE FIRST IS AT THE DRAGS AND THE SECOND IS THE PISTON MODIFICATION!